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Written by Erik Eckholm
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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No question, John Johnson is a doctor’s nightmare. Speaking from the easy chair where he spends his days in a small wooden house near this small Appalachian town, his left trouser leg folded by a safety pin where a limb was lost to diabetes, he lighted another cigarette. Mr. Johnson, 61 and a former garbage collector, takes insulin and goes to a clinic once a month for diabetes checkups. Taxpayers foot the bill through Medicaid, the federal-state health coverage program for the poor. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 30 November 2006 )
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